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Concept in philosophy
Ontological priority is a philosophical concept that was first introduced by Aristotle in his influential book Categories, in about 350 BCE. For over two millennia, this concept has influenced the reasonings of many philosophers and has influenced some discussion in ontology and logic. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Ontological priorityA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Rethinking Death: A Philosophical and Biomedical Model of Ontological PriorityInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Wahrheit und MethodeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Ontological Priority, Fundamentality, and MonismCited 41 times
- Go sideways: Law of noncontradictionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Problem of universalsA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Ontological Priority, Fundamentality, and Monism
Literary Biomimesis: Mirror Neurons and the Ontological Priority of Representation
Ontological Priority and John Duns Scotus
The ontological priority of representations
On the Ontological Priority of Physical Objects
Priority or Reflection? Ontological Dependence and Heterogeneity in Hegel and the Contemporary ‘Monism Renaissance’
Ontological Priority and Persons
Actual Existence, Identity and Ontological Priority
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Wahrheit und MethodeHans-Georg Gadamer · 1960
Cartesian meditationsEdmund Husserl, Dorion Cairns · 1960
Analytical philosophyR. J. Butler · 1962
AnalyticityCory Juhl · 2009
God and the FutureChristiaan Mostert · 2002- 📕Aristotle on Ontological Priority in the CategoriesAna Laura Edelhoff · 2020
The Trinitarian theology of Stanley J. GrenzJason S. Sexton · 2013
Priority NominalismGuido Imaguire · 2018
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